The program for Audubon Community Nature Center’s July 5 First Friday Lunch Bunch is a tour of the Jamestown Community College Science Center led by Professor Jan Bowman.

All are welcome.

The JCC Science Center is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified by the U.S. Green Building Council and loaded with green features, from a living roof to sustainable lighting.

The greywater system is designed so that the toilets and watering of the green roof (if needed) would be using greywater, which is relatively clean waste water. The green roof has sun-pipes for lighting with light sensors to help reduce energy use. Light sensors that turn the lights off in rooms when not in use are also built in, and light bulbs campus-wide are being replaced with LED lighting. The building has light wells, supplemental geothermal for heating and cooling with less energy use, and solar panels on the roof. Reflective lighting on windows helps temperature regulate.

Outside are a wildflower meadow, a retention pond that is connected to the greywater system, bluebird houses, bat houses, wren houses, and buffer strips around the waterways. JCC has also been a Tree Campus for 10 years, and work is being done to increase native plantings and to plan ahead for some major trees losses due to emerald ash borer.

The Science Center is the fourth, and last, building off the James Street entrance to JCC. After the tour, participants can have a brown bag lunch and conversation in the Weeks Room, where lunches can be left before the tour.

The Weeks Room is off the Scharmann Theatre lobby in the Sheldon (SHEL, formerly Arts and Science) Building, the second off the James Street entrance, where the group can walk to the Science Center together.

A professor of biology at JCC, Bowman is also coordinator of environmental science and advisor of the Earth Awareness Club. She is on the Water Quality Task Force and Waterways Committee for Chautauqua County and served on the board of directors of the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, where she continues as a member of the Conservation Committee. She received the Conservation Stewardship Award presented by the conservancy, the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by JCC, and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Bowman was one of the college’s representatives who accepted the Audubon Chairman’s Award when it was presented to Jamestown Community College for its “leadership in modeling best practices” in storm water retention landscaping its Jamestown campus.

The fee for attending First Friday is $8 or $6 for Nature Center members. Walk-ins are welcome. Registrations are accepted through Thursday, by calling 569-2345 during business hours or going online to AudubonCNC.org/Programs and clicking “Current Schedule.”